3>4z2 BOARD OF AGEICULTURE. 



Mr. Kiugsbury: The Satsuma is a Japan plum. The tree is very 

 brittle aud liable to break at the least wiucl. 



Mr. Thomas: I have a tree about ten years old of Satsuma, and 

 while it has bloomed five or six years, this is the first year it has borne 

 plums. From one to two dozen matured this year free from worms. 

 It ripens about the first of September. 



Mr. Thomas: Mr. Drampt, of Wabash County, raised a great many 

 bushels of Satsuma plums the past year, and they were very fine, not a 

 wormy one. 



Mr. Yoimg: I want to ask one word in regard to spraying. Some 

 five years ago I tried to make my own solution from formulas seen in 

 papers, but m^ide a failure, and last year I had a number of plum trees 

 of European varieties, Washington and others, that would rot with me 

 every year. Last spring, early in February, I purchased a compressed 

 air pump and also purchased from the Chemical Company preparations 

 all ready for use, and used them very early on the plums, and also on 

 grapes and peaches. The result was I had first-rate fruit. I sprayed 

 some three times; began about the time the buds commenced swelling, 

 and kept it up. Did not thin the fruit, but saved them from the rot. I 

 made a little test of this kind and had some peaches. Sprayed part of 

 the Bokara, aud had one tree very full that I did not spray, but sprayed 

 others near by, and those I sprayed, matured nicely and every peach on 

 the Bokara rotted. Did not spray the Snead, had two nice large trees very 



full, and they all rotted. I have three sprayers, , compressed 



air and the dust sprayer, and I use the dust made up in form by blvie 

 vitriol and the lime preparation; used it on one tree of Imperial Gage, 

 and iised the solution on the Washington and on the grapes. Part of 

 the Imperial Gage x'otted a little, but the Washington came through all 

 right. My grapes, with but very little exception, Diamond, Niagara 

 and Vergennes, all rotted with me. I used the preparation pretty strong. 



Mr. Thomas: I wish to drop one suggestion in regard to rot. We 

 ought to watch our trees and not allow anything to grow on them that 

 is of a diseased nature. Keep every limb and affected part cut out of the 

 tree. 1 commenced growing grapes thirty years ago and when mj^ vines 

 commenced to get old my grapes rotted badly. I noticed places where 

 I cut ofC the limbs that the wood had died back and caused dead spots 

 on the branches. I set a new vineyard and decided to raise on new 

 vines. I cut off every three years and raise from new vines, and have 

 not had a rotted grape since. I believe poison sap will be carried like 

 blight in peach, and affect the whole tree. 



' Mr. Milhouse: We have a little green louse that gets on the under 

 side of the leaf, and as soon as it gets there the leaf turns in and the 



